{"id":950351,"date":"2025-07-28T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950351"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:17:30","slug":"how-screen-addiction-reshaping-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/28\/how-screen-addiction-reshaping-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"How screen addiction reshaping childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s digital revolution, while transformative, is exacting a growing toll on its youngest users. With over 70 crore internet users and 60 crore smartphones in circulation, a creeping crisis is emerging\u2014one driven by excessive screen time and digital dependency, especially among children and adolescents. <\/p>\n<p>Though India lacks a unified nationwide study on digital addiction across age groups, a patchwork of regional and thematic studies reveal alarming trends. In Maharashtra, for example, 22% of children aged 9 to 17 reportedly spend more than six hours a day on screens. Nationwide, over 60% in the same age bracket log at least three hours daily on mobile games or social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s digital revolution, while transformative, is exacting a growing toll on its youngest users. With over 70 crore internet users and 60 crore smartphones in circulation, a creeping crisis is emerging\u2014one driven by excessive screen time and digital dependency, especially among children and adolescents. Though India lacks a unified nationwide study on digital addiction across age groups, a patchwork of regional and thematic studies reveal alarming trends. In Maharashtra, for example, 22% of children aged 9 to 17 reportedly spend more than six hours a day on screens. Nationwide, over 60% in the same age bracket log at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}